![]() Heller has no illusions about the difficulty of making a living as a novelist. Catch-22 wasn’t published until ten years later. His first accepted story appeared in The Atlantic (along with a companion piece of fiction by James Jones) in 1948. He did no writing during his war years in Italy. His earliest story was pecked out on a neighborhood boy’s typewriter and ultimately rejected by the Daily News short-short story editor. The fact that it has taken more than a decade to produce a second work of fiction seems of small concern to Heller, because he has evolved a definite and unique pattern of work that is not at all determined by deadlines and other arbitrary demands. This interview with Joe Heller took place during the week of the publication of Something Happened-a literary event of considerable significance, because the novel is only the second of the author’s career. Interviewed by George Plimpton Issue 60, Winter 1974 ![]()
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